Activating 4G/LTE for my new iPad

Trepex · Mar 17, 2012

Im trying to activate the cellular data on my new iPad, using a new Rogers LTE SIM card purchased at the same time as the iPad. I can't, for the life of me, get it to work.

I've tried toggling off LTE, I've tried adding the Rogers APN settings (rogers-core-appl1.apn), lots of reboots, and still nothing. Under Settings -> General -> About, Network shows "unavailable" and at the top of the iPad it continues to say "No Service". The About page does show ROGERS 12.0 for carrier and it lists an IMEI.

I seem to remember seeing "SIM not provisioned" at one point - I think when I pressed the "Network: Unknown" field under About. Now I don't see that anywhere though.

Anyone have some tips? Maybe a Canadian Rogers person?

u49aa2 · Mar 17, 2012

Actually I am having the same issue. In the iPad roger page they seem to say that by sync with iTunes the setting should be pushed to the device, but it is not working!

Trepex · Mar 17, 2012

u49aa2 said:
Actually I am having the same issue. In the iPad roger page they seem to say that by sync with iTunes the setting should be pushed to the device, but it is not working!

Have a read over here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3811281?start=15&tstart=0

Some unfortunate signs that Rogers is screwing us around. If this is in fact the case and LTE data needs to be activated as a monthly plan in-store, I'm bailing. Hopefully Bell or Verizon come up with something better.

u49aa2 · Mar 17, 2012

Trepex said:
Have a read over here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3811281?start=15&tstart=0

Some unfortunate signs that Rogers is screwing us around. If this is in fact the case and LTE data needs to be activated as a monthly plan in-store, I'm bailing. Hopefully Bell or Verizon come up with something better.

Not cool mate! Can't justify rolling into monthly plan, I hope that change.

Cheers

HeySamantha · Mar 18, 2012

I didn't get my iPad yet but from the looks of this map, I won't even be able to get LTE? It's that rusty color red where as LTE is purple. Does that mean I'll be able to set my monthly plans up on my iPad since it'll be 4G? The issue is that LTE people can't set up their LTE data plans over their iPad, right?

map: http://www.rogers.com/web/content/w...nsumer_Wireless_Eng-_-Network_0909-_-coverage

Trepex · Mar 18, 2012

HeySamantha said:
I didn't get my iPad yet but from the looks of this map, I won't even be able to get LTE? It's that rusty color red where as LTE is purple. Does that mean I'll be able to set my monthly plans up on my iPad since it'll be 4G? The issue is that LTE people can't set up their LTE data plans over their iPad, right?

map: http://www.rogers.com/web/content/w...nsumer_Wireless_Eng-_-Network_0909-_-coverage

Not sure. I tried turning off LTE and still wasn't able. I'd be inclined to think it won't work for any iPad 3. Then again, maybe with a non-LTE sim it might work. I think a lot of people have been trying their iPad 2 sims to no avail though. In short, I certainly wouldn't bet on it.

HeySamantha · Mar 18, 2012

Trepex said:
Not sure. I tried turning off LTE and still wasn't able. I'd be inclined to think it won't work for any iPad 3. Then again, maybe with a non-LTE sim it might work. I think a lot of people have been trying their iPad 2 sims to no avail though. In short, I certainly wouldn't bet on it.

That sucks, so they basically don't have on-device data activation for iPad 3, even though they said they did. Rude!

Trepex · Mar 18, 2012

HeySamantha said:
That sucks, so they basically don't have on-device data activation for iPad 3, even though they said they did. Rude!

Hopefully this is just a misunderstanding and next week Rogers will clear things up. Right now we can only speculate, although I admit it doesn't look especially promising

HeySamantha · Mar 18, 2012

Trepex said:
Hopefully this is just a misunderstanding and next week Rogers will clear things up. Right now we can only speculate, although I admit it doesn't look especially promising

They also want you to sign up for a plan which will come out of your bank account every month, right? rather than the plans timing out at a month and then needing you to re-activate a plan? So to cancel data for a month, we'll have to call them now instead of just getting it run out, correct?

BrennerM · Mar 18, 2012

I don't have LTE so I just want 3G service but mine says "No Service" with the LTE SIM card inserted. Can I get an older 3G SIM card from Rogers for the new iPad?

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